ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,751, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Stator and method for producing a stator" was invented by Andreas Ruppert (Buhlertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator for an electric machine, having a winding including a plurality of interconnected conductors which are assigned to one or more phases, wherein: ends of at least some of the conductors project axially or radially beyond the winding. An interconnection ring having at least one support ring on which at least one bus bar is arranged is axially placed onto the winding, and the support ring is formed from ...